Washington University
Department of Genetics
Seminar Series Schedule

Spring 2009
 
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Date Location - Time Speaker Topic Host
2009-01-22Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmJohn Carlson, Ph.D. - Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CTChemoreception in DrosophilaSusan Dutcher
2009-01-29Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmBarry Sleckman, M.D., Ph.D. - Chief of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MOCellular Responses to Physiologic DNA Double Stranded Breaks Generated in Developing LymphocytesSteve Johnson
2009-02-05Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmShamil Sunyaev, Ph.D. - Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MALearning from Re-Sequencing Data: What To Do When the $1000 Genome Arrives?Justin Fay
2009-02-12Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmEvan Eichler, Ph.D. - Department of Genome Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WAEvolution and the Impact of Segmental DuplicationsSusan Dutcher
2009-02-19Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmHelen H. Hobbs, M.D. - The McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development, Center for Human Genetics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TXGenetic Protection from Diseases of Dietary ExcessHuman Genetics
2009-02-26Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmDavid Stern, Ph.D. - Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, HHMI and Princeton University, Princeton, NJThe Complex Genetic Causes of a Trivial Morphological Difference between Drosophila SpeciesBarak Cohen
2009-03-05Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmHarmit Malik, Ph.D. - Division of Basic Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WAMolecular Arms-Races in the Evolution of Antiviral Genes in Primate GenomesJustin Fay
2009-03-12Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmNelson B. Freimer, M.D. - Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Director, UCLA Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CAPhenome and Genome in a Model SystemIngrid Borecki
2009-03-19Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmAlbert La Spada, MD, PhD, FACMG - Director, Center for Neurogenetics & Neurotherapeutics, Departments of Laboratory Medicine, Medicine & Neurology, University of Washington, Seattle, WAMolecular Basis of Expanded CAG Repeat Neurodegeneration: Transcription Interrupted?Human Genetics
2009-03-26Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmHolding - - Holding for Mike Province
2009-04-02Department of Genetics Library - McDonnell Science Building - 12:00pmEddy Rubin, M.D., Ph.D. - Director of the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI) and Genomics Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CADecoding the Non-Coding Genome, Microbes to ManHuman Genetics
2009-04-08Moore Auditorium - 4:00pmQUAD-Departmental Seminar Series - Terry Magnuson, Ph.D. - Department of Genetics, Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NCEpigenetics, Chromatin Remodeling and Mammalian DevelopmentDepartments of Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Developmental Biology
2009-04-16Moore Auditorium - 4:00pmQUAD-Departmental Seminar Series AND Kipnis Lecture - Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D. - Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California - San Francisco, San Francisco, CAResponses of Cells and Organisms to Perturbing Telomere MaintenanceDepartments of Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Developmental Biology
2009-04-22Moore Auditorium - 4:00pmQUAD-Departmental Seminar Series - Jay Hollick, Ph.D. - Associate Adjunct Professor, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California - Berkeley, Berkeley, CARNA-Based ParamutationsDepartments of Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Developmental Biology
2009-04-29Moore Auditorium - 4:00 pmQUAD-Departmental Seminar Series - Sarah (Sally) C.R. Elgin, Ph.D. - Department of Biology, Washington UniversityTargeting Heterochromatin Formation in Drosophila MelanogasterDepartments of Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Developmental Biology
2009-05-06Moore Auditorium - 4:00pmQUAD-Departmental Seminar Series - Jonathan Widom, Ph.D. - Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, ILThe Genomic Code for Nucleosome PositioningDepartments of Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Developmental Biology
2009-05-13Moore Auditorium - 4:00pmQUAD-Departmental Seminar Series - Barbara Wakimoto, Ph.D. - Department of Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WAOn Sperm, Membranes, and MysteriesDepartments of Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Developmental Biology
2009-05-20Moore Auditorium - 4:00pmQUAD-Departmental Seminar Series - Bradley Bernstein, M.D., Ph.D. - Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Broad Institute, Cambridge, MAEpigenetic Mechanisms of Pluripotency and Lineage-CommitmentDepartments of Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Developmental Biology
2009-05-27Moore Auditorium - 4:00pm***CANCELLED*** QUAD-Departmental Seminar Series - Stephen Baylin, M.D. - The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic MedicineLinks Between Pathways of Gene Silencing in Developmental Biology and CancerDepartments of Genetics, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, Cell Biology & Physiology, and Developmental Biology